The researchers focused their
study on a certain type of
amoeba, the most well - known of protozoa: the «
social amoeba» or Physarum polycephalum.
In
studies in the laboratory, researchers from Baylor and the University of Geneva found that sentinel cells in the multi-cellular
social amoeba slug use a form of toll - like receptor (that recognizes molecules from the microbes), as well as an enzyme called NADPH oxidase, in order to form these extracellular nets.